Three children have died from influenza in B.C: Unvaccinated populations at risk
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PRINCE GEORGE—The BC Center for Disease Control reports that three children have died across the province as influenza cases continue to rise and children who are not vaccinated are increasingly at risk.
Northern Health region features the lowest childhood vaccination rates across the province with less than 10 percent of people aged six months to seventeen years who are vaccinated.
“We have had some children hospitalized with influenza. But I understand that it’s not any more frequent at this point in the flu season than we would normally expect to see. This season, it looks like the numbers are just climbing now,” says Dr. Kirsten Miller, pediatrician for Northern Health. “My worry and probably most of the physicians that work in emergency rooms and with children are that we may now start to see more children sick enough to be hospitalized.,”
